Free support for SS11
If you haven't moved to Sun Studio 11 yet, you're missing out on a lot. SS11 is has an excellent compiler, world class tools and now the best support available for *free*. Its for a limited time onl...
Dust Bunnies
I opened up my computer case last night and noticed that it was practically full of dust. A few sprays of compressed air (especially on the CPU heatsink) and that cleared it up. The amazing thing is...
Meetings are bad for you
I knew it! According to the Education Guardian, too many meetings are bad for you! Good thing I only have two meetings I have to attend all week!...
NetBeans 5.0rc1 is out
The great people over at Netbeans.org have released NetBeans 5.0rc1. Its got bug fixes, and some improvements like web services applications for J2SE, so you don't need a bulky J2EE container.
The la...
Chileans elect their first woman president
Chile elected their first woman president, and yet the United States of America has yet to elect anything but a white man as president. Heck I'd be happy with a guy that wasn't like all the others, a...
Sun almost bought Apple
The Register has an article about how Sun almost bought Apple and almost merged two other separate times. I thought about this for a while, and I think the resulting company would have been ill-suit...
New work for Java Next
I'm starting to get back into the groove of working after my vacation. Mostly fixing bugs, and thinking of new performance improvements. If you have any suggestions or ideas feel free to leave a com...
Vacation
Wow, that was a long vacation. I'm back from my six weeks of weddings, visitng family and in-laws and other such things. I'll fill in something here later when I'm not so tired ...
XBOX 360
Last night I got to play with an XBOX 360 at the local Target. I must say its very impressive, the game they had was Call of Duty 2, and wow the graphics are amazing! I loved the original Call of Du...
Amazing Flight Sim and its FREE!
Check out FlightGear Flight Simulator, its an OpenGL based flight simulator. It's very realistic, and the graphics are just awesome! Check out the screenshots!
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Hardware Standardization
A couple of days ago I was recalling my first computer. How it was a mish-mash of hardware that really didn't fit together. It had two IDE hard drives, but the CDROM used a Matsushita interface that...
ABC's Lost
Wow, did you guys see that last episode of Lost? So that's what happened to the other 22 folks (the Tail-ies as I like to call them, cause they were in the tail of the plane!). I had a suspicion tha...
Sun T1 (Niagara) announced!
The new T1 processor from Sun has 32 threads, 8 cores and uses 70 watts of power. In term of power usage, Intel has long since moved to 100+ watt processors, and in terms of performance the Sun T1 is...
LEXUS
Hey I learned something new! Apparently Toyota's Lexus devision actually stands for something! Luxury EXport to US = LEXUS. Neat!...
Java 6 HotSpot Client Gets Faster
If you grab the latest version of Java 6 you'll notice that there is a new version of the Client compiler! Since Client is the default compiler for all 32bit platforms, this effects all users of Java...
How not to fix a bug several times
I've always tried to fix bugs in such a way that I don't have to revisit that particular bug ever again. Instead of just fixing what's wrong, I try to look at what else can go wrong and make sure tha...
Free Java Developer tools!
How would you like to get world class developer tools for FREE! And not just any old tools, but tools direct from Sun Microsystems! Well you can now get Java Studio Creator and Java Studio Enterpris...
Flickr FS
I usually don't use Flickr to store my images, instead I prefer to use my CalPoly alumni shell account to store any files that I want people to see. But I found this really cool virtual filesystem th...
SubSpace Continuum
Back in College (around 1997) I use to play this game by Virgin Interactive called Subspace. It's an overhead multiplayer space game the allows you to run around shooting up other people around the w...
Eid Mubarak
Today is Eid ul-Fitr which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan is the month where Muslims fast from dawn to dusk, and refrain from other worldly pleasures. Today Muslims traditionall...
SGI Delisted :(
SGI has been delisted from the NYSE and is now a penny stock! Very unfortunte since I use to work at SGI back in 1996 as a system builder. My dad worked there for nearly 12 years, so SGI has a very...
Fix for the Eclipse bug
The Eclipse bug mentioned on October 24th has been fixed and should make its way into Sun's Java SQA group (excellent people btw). Right now for those of you with this issue, should grab B59 of Musta...
Advertising Digest
When did Reader's Digest have more advertising then content? It seems every month the amount of advertising, especially medicine increases while the content gets sparse and quite boring actually. ...
.hotspotrc and .hotspot_compiler
There are two configuration files that let you control how the Hotspot VM behaves. Both .hotspotrc and .hotspot_compiler are optional and not supported and can go away at any time. The easiest place...
Eclipse crashing
There seems to be a very hot bug that is affecting many people running Eclipse on Linux/AMD64 machines. While I'm working on this bug, there is a better workaround then just reverting to the interpre...
I'm back!
I'm back! After being away for nearly six months, I've decided to get back into the blogging world! You may have known my previous blog as C2VMGuy, but I like my new JavaWithJiva much better! This ...